Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels

Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design

Website:http://www.sintlukas.be
Contact Person(s): Prof. Jan Cools, Research coordinator Fine and Audiovisual Arts
e-mail: jan.cools(at)sintlukas.be

About Reserach at Sint-Lukas, Brussels

The research policy of Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design is to position the university college as a dynamic research institution involving the full scope of visual art, audio-visual art and design. Much of its research activity could be characterised as practice-based. There is also theoretical research insofar as it is relevant for contemporary art practice. Cooperation between artists and theorists in research projects is stimulated.

Sint-Lukas Brussels believes that in each qualitative art practice (i.e. a systematically developed artistic practice that is both meaningful and innovative) research plays an important part. Therefore the university college endeavours to make artistic research possible without defining in advance what artistic research should or should not be. Setting up an artistic research project within the context of the art college should benefit the art practice of the artist/professor.

Sint-Lukas Brussels offers artists the possibility of designing and conducting artistic research projects in all openness and creativity. As a consequence the output of these artistic research projects is very diverse: a scientific article, an exhibition, a book, a movie, photos, paintings, prints, visual essays, a (video) installation …

At any given time, up to 15 small and large research projects are conducted in Sint-Lukas Brussels. Some research projects run over a few months, other over three and more years. At this moment the emphasis lies on the place and the role of the artist in society, on the use and extent of artistic mediums and interdisciplinary artistic practices and the investigation of the representative qualities of still and moving images. Numerous famous artists as Dora Garcia, Aglaia Konrad, Geert Goiris, Herman Asselberghs, Philippe Van Snick and others, linked as professor to Sint-Lukas Brussels, are active researchers.

Another aspect of Sint-Lukas Brussels’ research policy is the support for artists-professors to obtain a PhD in the arts. They receive research time and funding. For the organisation of the PhD-programme Sint-Lukas Brussels cooperates with the Catholic University of Leuven. This PhD-programme is also open for other students who are not teaching in the art college.

People at Sint-Lukas

Particpants in EARN activities

Willem De Greef, director of Studies and Research
e-mail: Willem.degreef(at)sintlukas.be
Steven Devleminck, Coordinator Transmedia
e-mail: steven.devleminck(at)sintlukas.be

Doctoral Researchers
Steven Devleminck, Transmedia: what’s in a name?
e-mail: steven.devleminck(at)sintlukas.be
Richard Venlet, Its walls, floors, ceiling and windows. The statute of the art work as spatial (presentation) framework
e-mail: sichard.venlet(at)sintlukas.be
Herman Asselberghs, In preparation
e-mail: herman.asselberghs(at)sintlukas.be
Claire Warnier, In preparation
e-mail: claire.warnier(at)sintlukas.be

Upcoming Events

Conference “The Academy strikes back”
Sint-Lukas Brussels,
4th and the 5th of June 2010
A cooperation with the Utrecht Graduate School of Art and Design – MaHKU

This conference is the third part of a trilogy which started in 2008 in Amsterdam with the symposium “A Certain Ma Ness”, whereupon in 2009, a partly closed expert meeting “Becoming Bologna” followed as a collateral event in the context of the Venice Biennial. The theme of the conference is the academization of the graduate art schools in the Bologna era and the impact of it on contemporary art practice and the art scene.

Keynote speakers are Renée Green, Irit Rogoff, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dieter Lesage.